We meet at 8.00 p.m. every 1st Thursday in the month at the Horsforth club, New Road Side, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 4DR. It's perhaps not as entertaining as an hour with Lady Gaga but you are welcome all the same.

SECTION FLAGS. For 2011 the main Route A (hardest) route through a section is flagged red and blue (red on the right) The Clubmens, Course B, also follows the red and blues except where there are white and yellow deviations (white on the right). There will be (or should be!) a pair of white and yellow to pair up with the reds and blues wherever there is an easier option to the route - so anyone riding the Clubmen Course B go through ALL the red and blues EXCEPT where there is an alternative white and yellow gate. The Easiest, Course C route will start with the red and blue start gate and usually end with the final red and blue end gate. In between the start and ends flags Easy course riders can ignore any other red/blue or white/yellow flags and just go through their own Orange (right) and Green (left) flags. NB - for 2012 it's likely the Orange and green will become green and green as the orange can easily be mistaken for red and has caused confusion.

The Wednesday night trials are marked out differently - just red & Blue then the white and Yellow option gates for the easier route

Although most (daytime) trials will run to the same format, as you would expect all the sections will be a bit easier on the N&B so riders might find themselves riding different courses on the N&B to what they ride in the champs and similarly the severity of the sections on Group or the Presidents trials might be a touch harder.

We aim for everyone to have an interesting and enjoyable ride.


How do we tell if we have set the courses right?
Subjectively - you, the riders will tell us yea or nay.
Objectively, every section should be cleanable by the better riders in each category so theoretically there could be some zero scores but in practice that doesn't happen often. Everyone has a slack dab or takes the odd flag out on the day. What we try to avoid is having any retirements at the other end of the table.
Achieving this on all the routes in all the trials with such a wide spread of rider ability is sometimes a bit tricky what with overnight rain, frost and never quite knowing how the sections will hold up after they have been ridden often well over 400 times (work it out).

COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE For all the theory of how to get the severity of sections right we suffer from the failings of being human so the only thing that is guaranteed is that it won't work out exactly as planned. If we produce a bummer that ends up like a game of dominoes (all 5's and 3's for our younger members who probably don't have a dominoes game on their Nintendo DS) please feel free to let us know. The cost of each complaint is one pint of the appropriate currency in the local hostelry. Inadmissable complaints include:- there are too many rocks at Deer Park; The grass is too slippy at Greenhow (and don't put that bloody tank in again); why wasn't there any water in Dry Gill; do you always have to put sections over tree roots at Swaine woods; why do you always put that same nadgery one in at Stump Cross that always takes points; can't you keep the sun out of my eyes on the rocks at Tong etc etc...

Going Going Gone

RESULTS ON THE WEBSITE - All being well results should be up on the evening of the trial. Exceptions are maybe Wednesday night trials or when Martin is on his jolly's but there hopefully will be a notice when signing on if that's the case (if we remember) so you can write an envelope out and get your results hand written in quill pen on parchment. (We will still try and get them on the website anyway - there just might be a delay).

If you are new to trials click on the 'Guide to Trials' tab to get you started.

Save time at the club trials, avoid scribbling your entry on a soggy form with a broken pencil. Download a blank entry form (see the link further back on this page) and personalise it from the comfort of your keyboard. Print a load off with your name, address, bike details etc and just scribble in the missing bits (date and venue) at the trial. It'll save you a lot of time at the event trying to find a pen that works in pouring rain. (And we might even be able to read them!)

HOW TO GET TO THE VENUES.